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Coronavirus: self-certification, here's how to fill it out

The Government decree provides for travel only for "proven work needs, situations of necessity or health reasons": a form must be completed which can be downloaded from the website of the Ministry of the Interior - The Viminale clarifies: "Self-certification is an obligation and false declaration it is a crime".

Coronavirus: self-certification, here's how to fill it out

Given that everyone better stay at home for those who instead have the right (for strictly established reasons) to move in that large area at risk which is all of Italy, the tool - as explained by Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte in the press conference to present yet another Anti-coronavirus Prime Ministerial Decree – is that of self-certification. However, the procedure is specific: it is not enough to verbally declare one's justification to move or improvise a written note, but a special form must be completed, downloadable from the site of the Ministry of the Interior. The form, which must be signed and which will be countersigned by the police or by whoever will carry out the check, explicitly reminds the citizen of risk – in the event of an untruthful declaration – incurring criminal consequences, pursuant to article 495 of the penal code (false attestation or declaration to a public official on one's own or others' identity or personal qualities).

It is also worth remembering, clearly, which are the only cases (although listed in a perhaps a little too general way) in which the movements can be justified: "proven work needs, situations of need or health reasons". Those who cannot print the form can still copy the text and take it with them, just as those who have to make the same journey several times (home-work journey, for example) can use a single form, specifying however that it is a periodic commitment fixed. If you are stopped, the police forces can then carry out subsequent checks: given the number of Italians involved, the control operations will be long and complicated, but in any case it will then be up to the citizens to demonstrate that they have told the truth.

If the findings of the police or other public officials are negative, the complaint will be triggered: the disputed crime (non-compliance with an authority provision) provides for imprisonment of up to three months, as well as a further complaint for malicious crimes against public health.

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